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    Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection
    Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection
    Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection
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    Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection

    By Lynn Johnston

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    The Pattersons face the daily challenges of raising three growing kids, an aging sheepdog named Farley, and now Farley's bouncy puppy Edgar. Farley gracefully exits the strip in Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection as he saves young April from the Sharon River, and is remembered as a hero.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateNov 6, 2012
    ISBN9781449437398
    Starting from Scratch: A For Better or For Worse Collection
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    Lynn Johnston

    Lynn Johnston is the creator of one of the world's most popular comic strips, For Better or For Worse, which began in 1979 and is published in more than twenty countries. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Lynn's many honors include the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award and the prestigious Order of Canada. Farley, the Old English Sheepdog from her comic strip, is based on a beloved dog—of the same name—she once owned. Lynn lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.

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      Another collection from the golden age of For Better or For Worse. In this volume, Elly changes jobs, Michael changes schools, Elizabeth changes hairstyles, and April goes swimming where she's not supposed to. And John, well, John just does a very good job of being a supporting character in this one. I hope he still got paid the same. Anyway, this one's a keeper for me.--J.

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